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THE GLACIAL LAKE AGASSIZ. 



to 15 feet liigli, trenclinji' from northwest to southeast; also somewhat 

 rounded mounds, as Oak Hummock, in the southeast quarter of section 12, 

 township 11, range 4 east, which rises about 30 feet above the adjoining 

 country, Avith its top approximately 810 feet above the sea; and occasion- 

 ally a massive and conspicuous hill, as Moose Nose, in sections 29 and 30, 

 township 11, range 5 east, which projects 60 feet above the average of 

 the nearly tiat cf)untrv around it, rising to about 840 feet above the sea. 





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Toward the nortJi, in sections 35 and 36, township 11, range 4 east, and 

 again from section 2, township 12, range 4 east, through a distance of 4 

 miles east-southeast to section 9, township 12, range 5 east, these deposits 

 of gravel and sand form plateaus a half mile to 1 mile wide, trending from 

 west to east, elevated 820 to 850 feet above the sea and 40 to 60 or 75 feet 

 above the adjoinhig low land, which on the north is a s])ruce and tamarack 

 swamp about 1 mile wide and 4 miles long from east to west. Next to the 



